Learning Haskell makes you a better programmer?

[SomeDude]

On Tuesday, 25 December 2012 at 20:29:54 UTC, so wrote:
>
> I am reading the book "Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence 
> Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp", and i have to say it 
> was somewhat a shocking experience. The fact that in a popular 
> book about the highest level language which includes chapters 
> for writing interpreters, compilers, yet i haven't met a c/c++ 
> book including such things, it is said these languages are one 
> of the low level languages. I know it is much easier to write 
> those for lisp than C, yet try to understand my point.
>

SICP also leads the student from the very basics all the way to 
the writing of a Scheme interpreter and a compiler in Scheme. 
That would probably not be possible in a reasonable number of 
pages for a language with a more complex syntax. Anyway, that 
doesn't mean that it's not possible, it's just take a whole lot 
more effort to do the same in C++ or in D.

As for being a better programmer after having used some advanced 
concepts, I don't know. I think every feature of a language must 
be used where appropriate. I've seen some Python code using 
heavily map/filter/etc that was simply unreadable to me. In some 
places, I find  it easier to understand for loops, while in other 
cases, using functional style programming conveys the intent 
better. But maybe that's just me.